Zootopia 2

A sequel to the 2016 Disney animated film Zootopia.

On the day of the Zootenial Parade and one week after becoming official parters at the Zootopia Police Department (ZPD), Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde go against Chief Bogo’s orders and investigate a customs inspector Snootley who has been smuggling illegal overseas cargo through the city’s shipyard. This leads to a car chase through Zootopia and Snootley’s capture at the expense of damage throughout the city. During the chase, Judy finds a piece of shedded snake skin but her worries are dismissed because snakes have not lived in Zootopia for about 100 years. Chief Bogo pulls them from the field and threatens to separate them if they cannot resolve their differences. Hopps and Wilde attend a “Partners in Crisis” course which they do not find helpful.

While further investigating Judy unearths evidence that a snake may be at the Zootennial Gala, an event hosted by Milton Lynxley, the grandson of Zootopia’s founder Ebenezer Lynxley, to celebrate the city's centennial anniversary. Hopps and Wilde go undercover to investigate. While infiltrating the Gala with Nick, Judy befriends Pawbert, the youngest son and black sheep of the Lynxley family. Meanwhile, a hooded creature crashes the party and reveals himself to be a pit viper named Gary De'Snake. Gary kidnaps Milton and uses him to steal the Lynxley Journal that documents the creation of the weather walls that regulate Zootopia's climate zones. Judy corners Gary, who persuades her that the journal contains evidence to prove his family's innocence before Nick knocks him out. Seeking to protect his family’s reputation, Milton demands to have the journal burned and Gary killed. When Judy refuses to comply and sets the room on fire, Gary accidentally bites Bogo, which ZPD Captain Hoggbottom witnesses. The Lynxleys frame Judy and Nick for the crime, forcing them to escape whilst Gary is retrieved by an unknown motorcyclist. After the incident, the Lynxleys order former actor and action star of the revenge trilogy The Neigh-Slayer and now Mayor Brian Winddancer to kill Gary, Judy, and Nick.

Now fugitives, Judy and Nick are rescued by Mr. Big and Fru Fru, but decline their offer to lay low and seek help from Nibbles Maplestick, a conspiracy theorist beaver knowledgeable about reptiles. Nibbles leads them to Marsh Market, a secluded area of Zootopia where reptiles hide. Nibbles talks to the locals and the group head to a speakeasy where they meet a plumed basilisk named Jesús, who explains that ever since a snake attacked a tortoise 100 years ago, the public perception of reptiles was changed and many left Zootopia. This resulted in the reptiles' original district being buried during the construction of Zootopia's arctic district, Tundratown, and that it is being expanded again, this time to Marsh Market.

Hoggbottom finds them, and Nick and Judy narrowly escape, but Gary steals the journal back and escapes through a water tunnel. As they attempt to track down Gary, Judy and Nick climb to reach the now abandoned Honeymoon Lodge, which resulted in an argument that ends up with their shared carrot pen breaking. At the lodge, Judy uncovers evidence showing that reptiles once lived peacefully in Zootopia. Later, Nick discovers that the ZPD, led by Hoggbottom, have caught up, and he goes to warn Judy, which results into another fight, with Nick stating that the case is not worth dying for. The ZPD finally catch up and arrest Nick, but Gary and the motorcyclist, revealed to be Pawbert, help Judy escape.

Gary and Pawbert reveal to Judy that Gary's great-grandmother, Agnes, was not only the original author of the journal, but she was also the engineer behind Zootopia's weather walls. She wanted to create a place where all animals would be welcome. Her greedy investor, Ebenezer, stole the credit and later framed her for murdering his tortoise maid who had retrieved the original patent with Agnes’ name on it. Her death made the general populace view reptiles as dangerous creatures, eventually leading into their exile from Zootopia. With the Lynxley Journal, Gary is able to see the location of the reptile neighborhood which had been buried in snow.

With the help of Nibbles, who was also arrested by the ZPD, Nick escapes from prison but accidentally also releases all the criminals including Bellwether. With the help of Clawhauser, they locate Judy at the Tundratown weather walls where the Burning Mammal Festival is taking place. There, Judy, Gary, and Pawbert activate an old clock tower to find the buried reptile district, deducing that the weather wall patent is hidden in Agnes' house. However, Pawbert betrays Judy and Gary, revealing he intends to earn his family's respect by destroying the patent. He injects Judy with snake venom, throws Gary into the snow, and steals the antivenom. Arriving at the weather walls, Nick fights Pawbert for the antivenom and manages to throw it to Gary, who cures Judy. Nick and Pawbert fall off the wall, but Judy and Gary save Nick. Judy and Nick emotionally confess their insecurities and feelings for each other, mending their relationship. Judy, Nick, Gary, and Nibbles follow a barely-survived Pawbert, while Winddancer defeats the rest of the Lynxleys. They then find both Agnes' house and the patent, while Pawbert arrives for another attempt to destroy it, but is knocked out by Hoggbottom.

With their crimes exposed, the Lynxleys are arrested, Judy and Nick are cleared of all charges, and Bogo recovers from the venom, while the Tundratown expansion to Marsh Market is cancelled, and reptiles reintegrate into the city. Gary reunites with his family, and Agnes is finally credited as the true founder of Zootopia. Nick gifts Judy the newly repaired carrot pen before they begin their next case which involves tracking down about 200 criminals that escaped during Wilde’s escape from prison.

In a post-credits scene, Judy replays a recording on her carrot pen of Nick saying he loves her before her neighbors interrupt. After she leaves, a feather lands on her windowsill.

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